1876.] Botany. 48 
that these five classes are broken up again into forty-five smells, and 
each smell has a name! The author has, here and there, made a little 
blunder of an amusing, but not serious character. For instance, our old 
friend of the bogs, skunk cabbage, figures as Pothos fætida, under the 
head odore alliaceo, and again with the name Simplocarpus (sic) fætidus 
in the monotypic class odore mefitico ; which is not so båd, after all. 
The volume is as attractive to entomologists as to botanists ; both wil 
find it full of suggestions in regard to examinations of flowers and their 
visitants ; both will complain that a work so full of details should have 
no fiijex. The table of contents is analytical and full, but does not re- 
place the index which we have the right to expect. 
Recent Booxs anp Pamputets. — The Structure and Development of the Sting 
and Ovipositor of Certain Hymenoptera and the Green Grasshopper, . H. 
Dewitz. 8vo, pp. 26. (From Siebold and Kölliker’s Zeitschrift.) 
List of the Fishes, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Crustacea, Annulata, Entozoa, Echinoder- 
mata, Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Sponges known from Greenland. Compiled for 
the use of the British North-Polar Expedition. By Dr. Chr. F. Lütken. 1875. 
8vo, pp. 115 to 197. London. 
The Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Formations of the habe By E. D. Cope. 
United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Washington, D. C., 1875. 4to, 
8 803, With 57 lithographic plates. (For sale,by the faslacitieee Agency, Salem, 
ass.) 
Recherches sur les Phénomènes de la Digestion chez les Insectes. By F. Plateau. 
Bruxelles. 1874. 4to, pp. 124, 3 plates. 
Check List of the Noctuide of America North of Mexico. By A. R. Grote. 
Bombyciæ and Noctuelite. Buffalo, N. Y. 1875. 8vo, pp. 28, with a plate. fect 
sale by the Naturalist’s Agency, Salem, Mass. 
e American Journal of Microscopy. New York Industrial Publication Co. 
Vol. I. No.1. December, 1875, 8vo, pp. 12. Fifty cents a year, single number 
six cents. 
The Illustrated ete pire of Rural Affairs for 1876. Albany, New York: 
Luther Tucker and No. A 
Synopsis of the Odoniia of aaah By Dr. H. A. Hagen. (From the Proceedings 
of the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. xviii , 1875.) Boston, 1875. 8vo, pp. 76. 
Bulletin of the United States National Museum. No. 1. Check List of North 
American Batrachia and Reptilia. By Edward D. Cope. Se: stoner of the Interior, 
-S. National Museum.) Washington, D. C. 1875. 8vo, pp. 
Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Thiere. og Brit Hiii. (From the 
Jenaische Zeitschrift, 1875.) With 7 plates. 8vo, pp- 106. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.' 
DıcHocamy 1x EPILOBIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM. — That the anthers 
shed their pollen before the stigmas of that flower are in condition to 
receive it, is one of the observations of Sprengel, at the very beginning 
of our knowledge of this subject. But he seems not to have called at- 
tention to the additional security against close-fertilizing, caused by the 
recurving of the style during the early anthesis, while the pollen is shed- 
1 Conducted by Pror. G. L. GOODALE. 
